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Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide

“Season-by-season guide to identification, harvest, and preparation of more than 200 common edible plants to be found in the wild....Hundreds of edible species are included....[This] handy paperback guide includes jelly, jam, and pie recipes, a seasonal key to plants, [and a] chart listing nutritional contents.”—Booklist.

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Earth & Climate

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“[Five hundred] beautiful color photographs...temptingly arranged.”—The Library Letter.

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Authors: Thomas Elias, Peter Dykeman

Publisher: Sterling

Date: Dec. 31, 1990

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